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The Drill’s crisis communications experts make news headlines: When crises break, media journalists and producers often ask Drill experts - crisis management consultants - to offer their insights and observations to help boost understanding of the crisis communication issues at play.

Drawing on years of crisis management expertise, our staff talk about crisis fixes and crisis solutions to help businesses overcome their PR and operational problems. You may even get crisis ready just by reading some of the articles below, where we discuss our proprietary approaches and methodologies for solving crisis control issues. The articles do not constitute specific advice or counsel, but we believe their principles to be, without guarantee, thought-provoking!

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Crisis Management Needs Crisis Monitoring

Crisis simulation companies say that crisis management begins in peace time. True, but it also starts with excellent intelligence and online media monitoring.

Yet some clients are still only using Google Alerts as their key source of issue and stakeholder monitoring. Google has - for years - admitted the incompleteness of its alerts content detection and notification service. And this could leave your crisis management plans very incomplete.

GOOGLE PRESENTING A FRACTION OF FINDS

Reports by one monitoring technology – Mention – claims Google Alerts may only be finding and presenting around one-tenth of the commentary that accompanies trans-media reportage.

In observing crises, and staging crisis management training, we know the early crisis narrative emerges across social media channels (especially Facebook and Twitter) before being ‘legitimised’ by mainstream news media and, thereafter, infusing search engine finds. Any crisis management consultants will be aware of the ‘story arc’ of modern crises.

Now, if you’re only relying on Google Alerts, you may miss the early ‘heads up’ you need to get ahead of the crisis commentary and curve. By the time the crisis has ‘broken’ across online news media and search, you’re facing an uphill chase to assert your side of the story.

Does your crisis simulation software reinforce all this to your staff and associates?

The Drill is a crisis-related communications training technology. Yet it's much more than that: It incorporates the frontline expertise of crisis advisers, experts and trainers. Without those key insights, it'd just be just another simulation tool. But it's not. Clear?